Sentences with phrase «from cynical»

Marion: And being long DEAD doesn't save you from this cynical ploy, as Rachel Carson could tell you, if she was not in fact dead lo these many years.

And being long DEAD doesn't save you from this cynical ploy, as Rachel Carson could tell you, if she was not in fact dead lo these many years.

Grauer, 50, a former artist who had become disillusioned with the Chelsea gallery system, started Canada as a place where artists might feel protected from cynical outside interests.

Even the return of the Joker and his subsequent role in the story can be viewed from a cynical perspective, namely that Warner Bros desperately wanted to bring him back simply to help sell their game, worried that they and the developers would not be able to craft a story around another villain, namely the Black Mask who I feel could have indeed carried the entire plot had he been given the chance.

Following the gradual transformation of this man from a cynical, love - starved intellectual into someone who craves the community and strength of the Muslim power elite in France circa 2022 is creepy but compelling.

From a cynical perspective these might well be pre-election ploys to curry favour and garner votes.

It's a common refrain from a cynical middle schooler in math class: «Why do we need to know this?»

In a departure from his cynical big - screen roles, Douglas brought real sympathy to his portrayal of tortured artist Vincent Van Gogh in Vincente Minnelli's biopic — and the actor earned his third Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

Overall, Big Miracle is told from a cynical point of view that may catch you off - guard.

From some cynical angle, I suppose the film could be seen as a cruel and distracting fantasy, one that ignores or minimizes the inescapable horror of those years.

Some stemmed from a cynical viewpoint that the movie's sentimentality was used as a selling point for self - improvement merchandise (read: Jim Stovall's book and that wonderful «Ultimate Gift Experience Kit»), and others focused more on the shortcomings of the movie in the conventional storytelling sense.

The Hunger Games's third instalment has a lot of things stacked against it, from the cynical bifurcation of an already slow - paced story into two parts, to the fact that Mockingjay is by far the least loved of Suzanne Collins» novel trilogy.

It's one of the less essential Coen brothers movies, but there's still fun to be gained from this cynical farce about a small group of very stupid people caught up in a blackmail and espionage yarn involving a retired CIA operative (John Malkovich), his mislaid memoirs, his wife (Tilda Swinton), her lover (George Clooney) and two dumb but ambitious gym employees (Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt).

So, I did a collab with the lovely Batsheva from Cynical Duchess.

From this cynical vantage, the weekly delivery — seven days» meals and snacks arrive at your door on Monday morning — made me slightly suspicious.

The scene in which Lazarus is raised from the tomb will probably elicit laughter from cynical younger filmgoers, for in an attempt to be authentic to the period, Scorsese has wrapped Lazarus so that he looks like a mummy who wandered over from a horror movie.

Perhaps the laughter of Abraham, which turned from cynical to celebratory when his son Isaac was born (the name means «He [God] laughs») would prove a more fruitful source for a biblical theology of play (Gen. 21).

It would seem that Iron Dome provided protection not only for Israel's southern cities but also saved itself from the cynical officials sitting in the glass towers in Tel Aviv's Ministry of Defense and IDF headquarters.

A smart move by the team, as the Eskimos could ill - afford a misdirected chorus of boos from a cynical citizenry.

Not exact matches

For many who remember what business was like pre-Internet, millennials seem an appallingly sensitive lot, having been protected from the vagaries of the world by helicopter parents, trigger warnings and — to especially cynical critics — sheer narcissism.

On its website, Theranos called the Journal story «inaccurate, misleading and defamatory,» adding that, «No amount of cynical and misleading news coverage will stop us from focusing on our mission and our goals.»

Years of cultivating that reputation meant that when WestJet stepped up efforts to assist with evacuations from Fort McMurray, Alberta during its devastating 2016 wildfire, it felt like a natural step for the company, not a cynical public relations maneuver.

«If someone was cynical, you would see this is a piece of direct mail from the Conservative Party to voters,» Mr. Nanos added.

Topics covered include: - How Booker's parents used a sting operation to desegregate a neighborhood, and why they did it - Why Ezra doesn't eat breakfast - Booker's disagreements with Ta - Nehisi Coates - How a 10 - day fast led to a (temporary) peace with Booker's worst political enemy - How spirituality informs Booker's approach to politics - The lessons Booker took from his early losses in with elections and city council fights - What it's like to be the only vegan in Congress - Why Booker hates penguins - Whether it's cynical or simply realistic to doubt America's political institutions - Which books have influenced Booker mostAnd much, much more.

This rush toward a vote in the Senate is a cynical attempt to roll back an important consumer protection before anyone gets straight answers from Equifax and Wells Fargo about the damage they've done to the financial lives of millions of Americans.

Greek society is too exhausted, divided and cynical from a five year depression (the term fits) that still hasn't hit bottom.

Don rightly scoffs at this idea («Don't be so cynical») when Sally parrots it on the phone — and we are reminded of his recoiling, in Season Five, from Lane Pryce's anti-spending slogan: «Pennies make pounds.

After a lot of research, interactionand connecting the dots I have come to the conclusion that atheists are very ungratful, cynical and suffer from some form of heightened superior intellect... in a nutshell they are fools... a fool saith in his heart there is no God.In a life changing moment why do they cry «my God»... why

At Vox Nova, Kelly Wilson has published an extended examination of the dilemma posed to those who find themselves struggling with Church teaching, whether because they authentically lack conviction or understanding or deal doubt from a more cynical place, as in the case of ideologically - driven op - ed columnists.

«Athanasius wants us to marvel at Anthony and his achievements, and in order to fall victim to Athanasius» intentions, we must train and stretch our imaginations beyond the pinched confines of egalitarian piety and cynical suspicion, and we must certainly free our souls from the many chains of supine indolence.

The timing release is very cynical, lots of free advertising from paranoid Christians for LaGaGa.

We have questioned how a book as cynical and pessimistic as Ecclesiastes could have found its way into the canon, failing to see the text's central affirmation of our work and play as gifts from God to be enjoyed.

In general, the cynical leaders of the backlash» as distinguished from the true believers at the grass roots who really do care about issues like abortion, religion, homosexual marriage, and the rest» are often moderate cultural modernists themselves, but they are perfectly happy to reap the benefits that accrue to them from red - state Americans losing sight of the material issues that ought to dominate their political imaginations.

But do not grow cynical, protecting yourself from future love or trust.

Lady Susan, a cynical story about a predatory widow's romantic scheming, dates from the mid-1790s, when Austen was approaching twenty; Love and Freindship, a madcap satire of the sentimental novel, was written a few years earlier, when she was a formidably accomplished fourteen - year - old.

If I was cynical enough I would say you were doing it to gain self satisfaction for not achieving from the inside what you wanted to.

He says that he «discovered that most of these older people were survivors of similar community - building experiments from the 1970s» and had become jaded and cynical.

The personalized and «humanized» stories — where we learned that Mitt helped out individuals with children who died and were sick and all that sort of stuff — was enough, despite my cynical resistance, to elicit a moist and salty discharge from the tear ducts near my eyes.

Conversely, from a more detached or perhaps more cynical perspective, the Justices» pronouncements might be merely a source of mirth, as when the family's four - year - old emphatically declares that «I've decided we're all going to Disneyland today,» and that the way to pay for the trip is to «just write a check.»

It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

For example, the depth and cynical nature of the U.S. war against the poor has been effectively hidden from the U.S. people as a whole.

I don't know about your country, but in mine, that particular word — «socialism» — was transformed long ago into just an ordinary truncheon used by certain cynical, parvenu bureaucrats to bludgeon their liberal - minded fellow citizens from morning until night, labeling them «enemies of socialism» and «antisocialist forces.

The conference was entitled «The Future of Reproduction» and was troubling in all manner of ways, not least because it was unclear whether I was witnessing a naïve attempt to really speak about the renewal of American culture, or a cynical undertaking to destroy the whole enterprise from within.

The blogosphere can be such a cynical place; it's nice to her from folks who are happy in their faith communities.

Its only a mystery to those who either from genuine ignorance or cynical pandering want to equate actually looking at the world and doing research based on evidence with what a book written thousands of years ago by pastoral tribes that claims to be divinely inspired despite being contradictory and getting numerous things wrong.

Whatever can be said from the standpoint of the give - and - take of cool and cynical diplomacy, it can scarcely be urged that at this point we are on Christian ground.

As for the Mexican War, «the deadliest that the United States has ever fought»» one in ten American soldiers died in less than two years of service» Howe makes a persuasive case that it was provoked by Anglo settlers with the connivance of the Polk administration as part of a cynical scheme to take California and the Southwest from Mexico.

A whole generation of young Germans had emerged from the last war humiliated, despairing and cynical.

Obviously irreligious, even from the standpoint of the absolutist religions, however, is the cynical attitude that rejects the validity of ideals and the reality of value distinctions.

Not long after Lion launched its new labels, Consumer group Choice criticised the move as «no more than a cynical marketing ploy» and «spin» from the Japanese giant.